Adaptation Part B: Submission

The Rake: Final Presentation

The Rake: Final Making Of

The Rake Model

Head Model Complete?

The Rake: Model Update

I've been attempting to model my character 'The Rake' for a while now, due to the asymmetry of it's anatomy, it was difficult for me to successfully model the character using the conventional methods of modelling. Therefore i have recently changed tactics and are now attempting to model my character by using individual strips of geometry and then sowing them all together. This should allow me to keep the asymmetrical look as well as maintaining the disjointed and fragmented look of the concept rather than my first smooth-faced attempt.

Form Concept

The Model So Far...

Interim Crit Presentation

*Scribd changed the font from Castellar to a default font*

The Rake: Expression Sheet

The Rake: Head Model Process

Humble Beginnings

For the modeling of the head, I took the basic head model; dragged back the neck and shoulders, i dragged down the mouth, pushed in the eyes, got rid of the nose and played around with the model until i got something that resembled my sketches. As i was playing around with the mesh, i would retopologize the mesh in order to keep the wireframe even.



Taking a long look at the model, i realized that i could work into the model and give it a bit more form and interesting features. I made the neck look a bit stronger to support the heavy look of the head, and dented into one side of the face in order to give it a scarier and more interesting feel.

Using PTEX textures i painted the model a dark green, then using different shades of green & brown i discoloured the model and made the indents black to emphasize their depth. I added some tones of red to make it feel alive and scratched the surface with small dark brushes to give it a dirty and woody feel.

After the PTEX painting was done, i took the model into Maya, turned up the cosine power on the specular shading and turned down the specular colour to a very dark grey, this gave it a very dirty feel as well as taking away the wet look. I also gave it eyes to help pain a picture of what it might look like.

The Rake Head Model Experimentation

The Rake Concept Update: Form

The Rake From Trees: Leg Experimentation

The Rake From Trees Part 4

The Rake Head Thumbnails

 

For these thumbnails i made a page of trees and used a random number generator to pick out one out for me, i then proceeded to make as many heads out of it as possible, i plan on doing this process for all of the body parts.

The Rake From Trees Part 3

The Rake From Trees Part 2

Collage of Trees

The Rake Made with Trees

Collage of Trees

The Rake: Religious Connections - Buddhism

When i was exploring the Rake story, i likened it to american folklore and it's purpose to scare people. However, with further research i discovered that most american folklore derives from old native american stories and christian beliefs. This lead me to look into christian tales and demons that are used to scare people into obeying the rules of god.

In this research i found a demon that is near exactly the same as The Rake. Although this likeness isn't documented or proven, it's hard to ignore the similarities, since the people that i've surveyed about the appearance of the rake matches up very well to this Demon called the Preta.

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The Preta are a group of lesser known demons and Under different circumstances we would probably feel sorry for these demons (given their unique eternal punishment), but you see, the extreme hunger and thirst a preta experiences can make them do some nasty things to humans. In Buddhism, pretas (the equivalent to the fallen order of angels called the Grigori in Christianity) desperately wander the world in constant search of food and water but have no mouth with which to eat or drink. As a result, they become evil spirits that possess weak-minded men and women and corrupt them by making them incredibly greedy and slothful in an attempt to satisfy their own hunger and thirst.
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another description says that:
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On the face of it, Preta are just a bit pathetic. Featured in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism and Sikhism, they’re basically dead and hungry but unable to eat, like the lamest zombie ever. But take one look at their backstory and you begin to feel a creeping dread. Preta are just dead people with a massive deficit of Karma. As punishment for being the scum of the earth in a previous life they’re brought back to roam the planet with a desperate hankering for food and no way to eat it. Sometimes the first bite bursts into flames in their mouth, sometimes the food just disappears; others they chew it but find they can’t swallow. And did I mention the food they crave is human waste? For not helping enough old ladies cross the road, they’re stuck crawling through sewers, desperately craving feces they can’t even eat. Oh, and apparently the moon and sun conspire together to alternately burn and freeze them like a vindictive Gobi Desert.